Quotes About Power

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.